If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re most likely willing to look after the majority of the maintenance to be carried out on your Toyota Tacoma, but some are more complicated than others and require the removal of body parts or parts to access the component you want to work on. We would really like to help you in this process. That’s why in this article we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Toyota Tacoma. This operation is not very complicated and you should have the ability to do it with few tools. To do so , first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Toyota Tacoma, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Toyota Tacoma
So let’s begin our content with the front bumper of your Toyota Tacoma. To remove it, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the steps you will have to stick to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Toyota Tacoma in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we recommend you to put your Toyota Tacoma on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your automobile: Seems obvious, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take off the wheel arches: They’re also named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Toyota Tacoma. Dependant on your vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to achieve this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it carefully with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is from behind your mudguard and that locks the front bumper of your Toyota Tacoma on the sides.
- Unscrew the screws or remove the clips on the upper part of the bumper in the engine bay.
- Now it’s time to go below your Toyota Tacoma to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the vehicle, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
- Remember to disconnect the connection of the plate lighting and the distance control sensor if you have it.
- Carefully remove the front bumper by first unclipping the sides. If it doesn’t come off, you most likely forgot a screw or a clip. Think of working with a carpet or other to avoid that it gets scratched by touching the ground.
That’s it, you’ve seen all the steps of how to remove the front bumper from your Toyota Tacoma, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Toyota Tacoma
And to conclude, even if the operation is quite identical, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Toyota Tacoma. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will exclusively give you the broad outlines, read the part 1 if you have any uncertainties or questions for more info.
- Start with executing the same first stage, that is, lift your Toyota Tacoma and remove your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Toyota Tacoma without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Toyota Tacoma to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take off the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it easier to remove the bumper from your Toyota Tacoma.
- Take away the lower bindings underneath your Toyota Tacoma.
- Simultaneously, remember to disconnect the rear license plate light and the reverse radar sensors if you are equipped with them.
- Unscrew the top brackets from the top of the trunk.
- Now all you have to do is remove the rear bumper from your Toyota Tacoma, stick to the same technique as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Toyota Tacoma whether it is the front one or the rear one the solutions are more or less the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
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